Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

- Malayan Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Jewish Proverb

2.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverb

3.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

4.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

5.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

6.

A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Dutch Proverb

8.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

9.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Chinese Proverb

10.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

11.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

12.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Huxley, Aldous

13.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

14.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

15.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Seneca

16.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

17.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

18.

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

Joubert, Joseph

19.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

21.

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.

Belgian Proverb

22.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

23.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

24.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Jewish Proverb

25.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

26.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese Proverb

27.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

28.

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Proverb

29.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

30.

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Proverb

32.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

33.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

34.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

37.

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Baker, Nicholson

38.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

39.

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

French Proverb

40.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

41.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.